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Challenging Your Mind with Ideas to Help You Protect Your Individual Rights and FreedomThu, 01 Feb 2018 08:09:08 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1Trump versus the Deep Statehttp://cyber-assault.com/?p=1170
http://cyber-assault.com/?p=1170#commentsThu, 01 Feb 2018 07:34:34 +0000Alan Egusahttp://cyber-assault.com/?p=1170Continue reading →]]>The title of the article immediately below verbalizes the big question: Who will win, Trump or the Deep State? The answer will determine the course of our nation. The United States has been on the path to a collectivist (statist) dictatorship for over 100 years. The odds of turning the direction of our country around are very slim. But, “We the People” finally spoke up, hopefully before it is too late. We elected the “outsider” Trump as our President, and the “Deep State” was immediately threatened. That is the real reason for the vehemence of the “Never-Trump” and anti-Trump movements. They are now fighting for their lives because many of them will go to prison if Justice is served. That is the significance of the FISA memo controversy currently dominating our news. Making this “secret memo” public will reveal some of the Deep State operations and prove its existence. You need to encourage your Congressman to make them public.

Most of Trump’s advisers are “insider” members of the Deep State. Trump himself does not seem to be fully aware of the existence of the Deep State, and it is so pervasive that it is difficult to find advisers who are not part of it. Trump has not made a concerted effort to get “outsider” advisers and that is a crucial mistake. His advisers are influencing him to move back to the “status quo”, to business as usual in politics. Trump is in a very difficult position because he is not fully aware of the nature and pervasiveness of the enemies of freedom.

Trump is a pragmatist. Most assume that pragmatism means that one is practical, but that is incorrect. Pragmatism as a philosophy rejects principles, on principle. As an example, if Trump were to negotiate between a murderer and his intended victim, he would engage in negotiations with no pre-conceived notions. He would talk to both parties and attempt to weigh their positions equally. He would make his decisions based on the “expediency of the moment”, based on the situation at hand without reference to principles. In contrast, if I were the arbiter, I would not need to speak to the intended victim at all. I would simply inform the murderer that murder is wrong, on principle. The intended victim has a right to his own life that the murderer will not be allowed to violate. If he does manage to murder his intended victim, he will be punished severely, period. Individual rights are sacred!

Trump vacillates between positions and actions that are both for and against freedom because he is a pragmatist. But then, if he consistently acted for freedom, he might have already been assassinated. The assassination of President Kennedy in 1963 has still not been “solved”. This illustrates the power and extent of the Deep State. Hopefully, the Deep State still believes that they can manipulate Trump and mitigate his impediment to their statist-collectivist plans for the United States. One promise needs to be made perfectly clear to them. “We the people” will revolt if Trump is assassinated. It will be physically violent and bloody, and very few of the Deep State collectivists will personally live through it. They must be purged if we are to have a chance at re-establishing our individual rights and freedoms.

The United States is a mixed economy, a mixture of capitalism and collectivism. The actual version of collectivism does not matter materially. They all result in dictatorship; they all result in the opposite of freedom.

The three variations of collectivism are socialism, fascism, and communism. Communism is the most extreme form, but the other two are similar. Taken to their logical ends they both eventually morph into communism. Under socialism the government owns the means of production. Under fascism the means of production are privately owned (in name only) but controlled by the government through regulations. Some believe that fascism is the most practical form of collectivism because it takes advantage of its most talented individuals to efficiently manage and run the means of production.

Our mixed economy is unstable because it is a mixture of two opposite and incompatible elements. We have been moving toward more collectivism and away from capitalism and freedom for over a hundred years. The particular form of collectivism in our mixed economy is fascism, not socialism. Regulations are part of fascism. They cannot come from capitalism because the essence of capitalism is freedom. How do you derive a regulation from freedom? Crony capitalism is mis-named and should really be called crony fascism. The collectivists are very good at manipulating language to serve their statist ends. Cronyism is a feature of fascism, not of capitalism. Controls breed more controls. The more regulations we have, the more fascist we become. How many Americans understand this? But, you need to understand this the next time someone attempts to criticize capitalism by criticizing our existing system–which is a mixed economy. It certainly is not capitalism because it is half (or more) fascism!

A collectivist government (the state) is large and all-powerful. It can easily be understood with the analogy of a honey bee hive. All subjects, they are not citizens, are worker bees whose lives are owned and controlled (regulated) by the all-powerful state. They have duties to their collective (group, tribe, nation, religion, or race), but no rights. The purpose of their lives is to serve the state; their moral obligation is to sacrifice their lives for the “common good” of their collective, of their honey bee hive. Their individual lives and happiness are irrelevant. What matters is the well being and survival of the group, not of the individual.

Individualism is the political opposite of collectivism. It logically rests on the concept of individual rights. When your rights are recognized and honored by your government the result is freedom. The United States was founded on the principle of inalienable rights and the resulting freedom in our early history is the reason we became the richest country in the world. It is cause and effect; wealth is created when citizens are free to act in their own rational best interest. A nation’s prosperity is proportional to its freedom! Adhering to our Bill of Rights and Constitution is crucial to maintaining our freedoms. Our Declaration of Independence is the overall statement that explains the “why” behind our Constitution.

Individualism is the ideology that results in freedom. Collectivism is the ideology that results in slavery, the slavery of the worker bee. This issue of rights versus duties is a moral one, and morality is more powerful than practicality. Morality carries more weight when people vote for one or the other. They will choose what they think is right. Unfortunately, few Americans have a clear understanding of the difference between the two ideologies, and that is the reason why their children’s fate will be to live in a tyrannical dictatorship. The rights that they once took for granted will be a distant memory.

I am referencing these linked articles in an effort to gain credibility in your eyes. They show that I am not the only one who thinks this way because the linked articles show aspects of my views. Many of them were shaped or acquired by reading Objectivist writings. Ayn Rand has changed my life for the better by helping me to gain an integrated view of life, of existence. I agree with Objectivists that the philosophical values we hold shapes our culture and thereby determines the course of our nation, our history. We cannot escape the significance of philosophy, of abstract ideas, and that is why I strive to explain them in simple ways so that you too can understand them. What is at stake are our individual rights and freedoms.

What are the economic consequences of Socialism? They’re saying in the audio linked below that the source of the misunderstanding between the means and ends of any given ideology is ignorance, which agrees with my own conclusion. They’re also talking about finding the right mix between governments and markets. What they are really asking is how much poison should you mix in with your food? The answer is: none! The answer is that the government should have no authority in the market place. There should be no government regulations in business because it is literally none of their business how you conduct your business! As long as you do not commit physical force or fraud on anyone, it is none of the government’s business! This is an issue of private property rights. The fact that you open up your business to the “public” does negate the fact that it is your business.

Philosophy is all about finding the truth. Then, we need to apply that truth consistently. In the realm of principles, everything is black and white. Things only get grey when we attempt to apply these principles to real life which can get complicated. That is why we should organize and simplify as much as we can, wherever we can. Getting your principles straight entails dealing with abstract ideas. We must think hard about it because that is what makes us truly human. We are defined as the rational animal. Objective thinking is the highest expression of our identity, of the kind of creature we are. Rene Descartes said: “I think, therefore I am.” He was wrong. He had it backwards. The correct formulation is: I am a rational being, therefore I think.

Intentions Don’t Matter — Outcomes Do

In the ongoing battle of ideology between capitalism and socialism, what do the outcomes say?

Bureaucracy is a feature of collectivism, not of capitalism. Ludwig von Mises defines it as “the government’s method of managing its affairs”. In a free market, each private business would manage its own affairs because their affairs would be none of the government’s business!

Bureaucracy is an expression of government centralization. Its opposite is the decentralization of the free market which requires conceptual thinking by all participants. Man is the rational animal because he is capable of conceptual thought. The free market is the appropriate socio-economic system for man. Its opposite is the collectivist honey bee hive which is an appropriate system for insects. What is the essential difference between a man and an insect?

Bureaucracy is merely one of the myriad ways in which collectivism inhibits prosperity. A nation’s prosperity is proportional to its freedom, and free market capitalism is the essence of freedom. Most Americans do not truly understand the nature of capitalism.

Are we on the same path as Germany in their Weimar Republic before WWII? Will we find ourselves living in a totalitarian dictatorship like Hitler’s Nazi Germany? Certainly looks like it! “Nazi” was a German abbreviation for the National Socialist Party of Germany. Freedom of speech and of association are currently under heavy attack. Are you aware of this? (Examples are “safe spaces” on college campuses, Facebook censorship, and lawsuits against Christian bakers by gays. Anti-discrimination laws are anti-freedom!) The Liberals are leading us toward a collectivist dictatorship with no awareness of what the end of the road will be like. Ignorance! Emotionalism? Yes! That is why it is so important for you to think and to understand a few abstract ideas like rights and freedom, and the kind of government they require! We must initiate a change toward an individualist government as defined by our Bill of Rights and Constitution. Continuing along the path to collectivism can only result in the enslavement and poverty of all of us worker bees. We must assert that we are humans, not insects! As humans we have inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

]]>http://cyber-assault.com/?feed=rss2&p=11700North Korean EMP Attack?http://cyber-assault.com/?p=1164
http://cyber-assault.com/?p=1164#commentsMon, 04 Dec 2017 02:40:54 +0000Alan Egusahttp://cyber-assault.com/?p=1164Continue reading →]]>This is speculation on my part, but it something to think about. With all of the fake news surrounding us, I can only speculate.

All Americans should be aware of the North Korean threat that could kill up to 90% of our population. They say within a year, but I think it will only take 3 or 4 months. Think about what will happen with no electricity–anywhere! Everything stops. Everything. Our electrical grid could have been hardened against an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack at a reasonable cost, but politicians and (government regulated) utility companies have been dragging their feet for decades. There is no excuse for leaving the US population so vulnerable. The primary purpose of our government is to protect the rights of its citizens, as stated in our Declaration of Independence, the greatest political document in history. A partial list of these rights are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The right to life is our fundamental right because the other rights are meaningless once you are dead.

North Korea has previously tested nuclear devices. The press told us that the last one was small. What they did not tell us was that it was optimized for maximum EMP. North Korea is not stupid. They are working toward being able to take us out with the detonation of only one nuclear device at high altitude above the approximate center of the US. Precision is not necessary. Their missile test a few days ago proved that they are now capable of launching a missile that can reach the East Coast of the US, so they are more than capable of reaching the center of the country. The only question is whether or not their missile can carry enough payload, and their missile technology has been progressing very quickly. Would you like to play “bet your life”? For real!

You only die once, and death from starvation or thirst is not pretty. But, you may get lucky and be killed quickly by physical violence. Or, you may linger and suffer from your injuries for a long time before dying. After a successful EMP attack there will be zero medical care available. There will be no water, food, medicine, or physical security–other than what you already have. Without a gun, sufficient ammo, and the skill to hit your target effectively, you will be a helpless victim against the mob of starving and desperate people driven mad by thirst. Without water they will die soon, so they will have nothing to lose. They will not be merciful to you, only brutal. There will be no replacement of any supplies. Stores will be looted and empty. You will truly be on your own. Welcome to an uncompromising reality!

I live in Hawaii. North Korea can ignore Hawaii. Once the continental US goes “dark”, all shipping to Hawaii will stop. About 90% of the food we eat is shipped in along with most of our other supplies. The electric companies here are supposed to keep one month of reserve fuel on hand for their generators. (I personally checked on this critical fact.) Do you really think they’ll have that much? Hawaii will go “dark” within 2 to 4 weeks. Will the military and Navy here be able to function after the society around it collapses? North Korea, Iran, China, and Russia will not need to be concerned about the military bases in Hawaii. Will they win World War III? Obama had 8 years to weaken and decimate our military–and did. The deep state (or swamp, or whatever you want to call it) is very extensive. It and the biased media is preventing President Trump from making much headway. This is a “big picture” view. Keep your fingers crossed that this “bad stuff” does not happen. Apparently, our government cannot prevent it. How lucky are you? Wait and see. You really do not have a choice.

WARNING: N. KOREA MAPPING SPECIFIC PLAN FOR ‘DEVASTATING’ EMP

President urged to create special commission similar to Manhattan Project

]]>http://cyber-assault.com/?feed=rss2&p=11640The Problem with Socialismhttp://cyber-assault.com/?p=1160
http://cyber-assault.com/?p=1160#commentsMon, 13 Nov 2017 00:37:18 +0000Alan Egusahttp://cyber-assault.com/?p=1160Continue reading →]]>Margaret Thatcher, the Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, once said that: “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples’ money.” Wealth redistribution by government is an essential component of socialism. But, it is morally wrong because it is theft. Whether committed by the local criminal, the mafia, or the government, theft is theft. The person on the other end of this transaction is receiving stolen property. All of it is wrong because it violates the right to private property.

In the United States this theft is perpetrated with the progressive income tax and other devious methods. If you refuse to pay your taxes, the IRS will eventually seize all of your funds and put you in jail. Even the notorious gangster Al Capone was eventually imprisoned on the crime of tax evasion when the authorities could not make any other criminal charge stick. The government does need some amount of money to perform its legitimate function of protecting your rights, but its budget today is far too large. Much of its spending is on credit. Mathematically, we cannot pay off our national debt, and it will come back to destroy us when our house of cards collapses–sooner than you think!

America was founded on the principle of inalienable individual rights. Most Americans today take these rights for granted, and that is why we are losing them. They do not know what individual rights really are or why they are valid. The concept originated in ancient Greece and evolved over a period of more than 2000 years. Even our U.S. Supreme Court does not adequately understand it. Suffice to say that our country was founded on the idea of a limited government of minimal powers which would result in the maximum amount of freedom for the people. The bigger and more powerful your government, the less freedom you have. The government in the United States has grown far larger than our Founding Fathers had ever intended, and we have lost many of our rights and freedoms along the way. This commentary on socialism was written in response to my reading the second article linked below. Too many Americans are ignorant of the actual history of socialism, and it would be enlightening for them to read the article.

Under collectivism, also known as statism, the government (state) is large and all-powerful. It can easily be understood with the analogy of a honey bee hive. All subjects (they are slaves, not citizens) are worker bees whose lives are owned and controlled by the all-powerful state. They have duties to their collective (group, tribe, nation, religion, or race), but no rights. Their purpose and moral obligation in life is to serve and sacrifice for the “common good” of their collective, their honey bee hive. Their individual lives and happiness are irrelevant. What matters is the well being and survival of the collective, not of the individual.

The three variations of collectivism are socialism, fascism, and communism. Communism is the most extreme form, but the other two are similar in principle. Taken to their logical ends they both eventually morph into communism. Under socialism the government owns the means of production. Under fascism the means of production are privately owned (in name only) but controlled by the government through regulations. Some believe that fascism is the most practical form of collectivism because it takes advantage of its most talented individuals to efficiently manage and run the means of production.

The United States is a mixed economy which is an unstable mixture of capitalism and collectivism. The form of collectivism in its mixed economy is fascism, and we are becoming more collectivist every day because controls breed more controls. The more regulations we have, the more fascist we are. How many Americans understand this?

Our country has been on the ideological road to collectivism for more than a hundred years, and the popularity of Bernie Sanders in the last Presidential election proves the point. He openly stated that he is a Democratic Socialist. But, if you have any understanding of the ideology, it doesn’t matter what variation of socialism it purports to be. It is still a honey bee hive filled with worker bees who ultimately have no rights, only duties to their hive. The trend will always be toward full socialism, full collectivism, full dictatorship. Controls breed more controls. All worker bees have a moral duty to serve their all-powerful hive, their collective. They have no right to life, liberty, property, or the pursuit of happiness because their individual lives do not matter. Only the collective matters, and they are its slaves. Collectivism is an appropriate social-political organization for insects, but not for humans. That is why all attempts at it in human societies have been failures. It simply does not work for us.

Human beings have dreams, aspirations, and goals. They possess a conceptual consciousness and are defined as the (potentially) rational animal. Each individual has a set of personal values, and his actions (if rational) are calculated toward achieving those values. The right to private property is a necessary pre-condition of achieving one’s happiness. How do you achieve happiness if you can’t own anything? The United States is the first and only country in history to explicitly state in its founding principles that each of its citizens has an inalienable right to the pursuit of happiness. This logically means that you must also enjoy the rights to life and liberty. Thus, our Declaration of Independence, the greatest political document in history, explicitly states that our government will recognize and honor each citizen’s pre-existing inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

America’s founding principles of individualism make it the first moral nation in history. It is the philosophical opposite of collectivism. Individualism is the ideology of freedom while collectivism is the ideology of slavery. A man who does not own what he produces is a slave. A slave does not even own his own life. In America our magnificent Declaration asserted that you would own your life and that you would also own what you produced. Our Constitution thus guaranteed that you would have the freedom and the means (private property) to make the best of your own individual life.

The essence of capitalism is freedom, and that is what made America the land of opportunity. It was a beacon to immigrants from all over the world who wanted a chance to make a better life for themselves and their children. The unwritten pre-condition was that they would need to assimilate into a culture of freedom and leave any contradictory cultural principles behind in their old country. A nation’s prosperity is proportional to its freedom. America traditionally is the land of the free. To make America great again, all we need is our freedom back! If you think you are free today, consider all of the (fascist) regulations that limit your actions in business, for example. Ideology (an idea) does matter! Collectivism is actively destroying our rights and freedoms. Ignore fundamental ideas at your own peril!

The article below reveals the ignorance and self-centeredness of many college students. Their views and opinions are upside down and backwards. It is as if they speak in opposites: good is bad, bad is good, and dictatorship means freedom. Unfortunately, we cannot allow them the luxury of destroying our freedom just to show them that they are wrong. America is the world’s rare and precious example of freedom. If we lose our freedoms, we will never gain them back in our lifetimes. We cannot spill enough blood to accomplish such a extraordinary feat. Anyone who believes in the fantasy of a socialist utopia is free to leave and live in Venezuela, or anywhere else but here. Live it! Don’t just talk stupid and be a hypocrite! We must make it clear to them that they do not get to extinguish our freedom as a result of their naiveté. No way!

Speech is not violence. Indirect violence is threat, intimidation, incitement, or shouting fire in a crowded theater when there is no fire. Whether direct or indirect, violence must not be tolerated. For example, we cannot allow a speech or debate to be cancelled because protesters threaten violence. They have no right to not be offended! What they do have is the freedom to leave and to not listen. They do not have any “right” to prevent others from listening if those others choose to do so.

Free speech is under assault in America today, and this movement is being led by ignorant students on college campuses and their equally ignorant professors. Neither have ever had to make a living in the real world which does not care about their immature feelings. They are being taught a radical Leftist ideology (collectivism) in government (public) schools which does not work in reality. It is indoctrination, not education. They are not being taught how to think, how to properly use their rational faculty. They use political correctness (which is invalid) as club to beat their opponents into submission and silence. “If you disagree with me you are wrong, so shut up!” But, they cannot explain why! They are ruled by emotion and advocate the false theory of collectivism. They do not realize that they are actually advocating slavery! Do not let them use your polite manners against you–and thus make you a slave. We must not allow our history to be determined by stupid people who operate on their emotions. They will readily resort to physical violence, but they don’t seem to realize that it cuts both ways. Violence could also be used against them! And, they won’t be able to stop it once it really starts. They should beware–before it’s too late!

The reason or force principle states that there are only two fundamental ways to deal with another human being: reason or force. And, when anyone through their words or actions demonstrate that they have rejected reason, they leave us no choice but to deal with them in the only way that they themselves allow, and that is with force. Physical force is rarely the answer, but when it is the answer, it is the only answer. We must absolutely not tolerate their threatened or actual violence!

When someone says something contrary to your views, you should tell them immediately that you disagree. You could diplomatically ask: “I heard what you said, but I do not understand what you mean. Please explain.” Accept only a rational answer, not “feelings” however sincere. It must make sense! If it does not, tell them clearly that it their opinion does not make sense. By insisting on a rational answer you will not betray your rational faculty which is the defining characteristic of a human being. Your integrity and your freedom is on the line!

Vassar College Activists: Constitution ‘Inherently Racist,’ Speech Must be for Collective Good

The article below shows that ideas matter. The violence described is a result of teens accepting false ideas–and acting on them. This is why false ideas must be confronted immediately because they will result in inappropriate action, either immediate or eventual. This is also why we need the police. They are supposed to protect our rights by enforcing laws against physical violence. Allowing teens to get away with their irrational violence or intimidating threats only teaches them that it is okay. Then, they will do it again, and again, and again. Bad behavior needs to be corrected immediately, the first time. It takes much more effort to unlearn and correct bad habits later. They must learn to be responsible for their lives–and to not violate the rights of others if they want their own rights to be respected.

‘Group of Teens’ Strikes Again in Baltimore, Young Girl Beaten with Bat

Regulations (fascism) again! Here we go! Unelected bureaucrats are empowered by our big government to become dictators, and you are their victim whether you realize it or not. You really need to be able to articulate a sensible argument (especially an ideological one) against collectivism. Stand up for your rights, or lose them. Reason or force. Will it be the rule of reason, or the rule of brute force? Using reason is the human way! Your choice, and their choice.

Note: We need to be able to make a clear distinction between a law and a regulation. A proper law protects your rights; a regulation violates them (limits your freedom).

Zoning Regulations Have Dire Human Costs

The issue with zoning restrictions is not merely academic. Tight regulations on land use cause real problems for real people.

My economic principle is: “A nation’s prosperity is proportional to its freedom.” Look at the world and you will see that all dictatorships are poor. No exceptions. The most prosperous countries are semi-free. There are no completely free countries (economic freedom, specifically, along with personal and political freedom). Assert this principle at the beginning of any discussion as soon as the subject turns to economics. Unless they can show you why it is wrong (they can’t), use it against them whenever they say anything to the contrary. You will thereby change the terms of the debate. This is one way to defend America and the free market (= capitalism, the essence of which is freedom.) Ask them to explain how they get a (fascist) regulation out of the concept of freedom! As long as you do not violate the legitimate rights of others, you should be free to do anything you want. You should be free to pursue your happiness!

Keep Asking the Big Questions

It’s the responsibility of economists to ask and answer questions like these—and the job of economics columnists to relate and explain the discussion.

Capitalism is a system of “willing exchange”. This an excellent description from the article below. When both parties are willing participants in the exchange there is mutual consent. An example is a bilateral contract. As long as there is no coercion it is genuine choice, and freedom is all about choice!

This last article and video is an excellent wrap-up to my commentaries. The argument for “equality of results” is one that captures many of the idealistic but naive young. In a free market, in capitalism, there will always be those who achieve more than others and gain great wealth. This is just the way it is, and it is based on human individuality. But, what we need to realize is that it is not a “zero sum” game. The size of the pie (our economy) is not constant; it grows or shrinks.

Under capitalism, producers working for their “selfish” interest increase the size of the economy. It is a system of “willing exchange” in which the use of force is outlawed. In the process of getting rich they increase the size of the economy so that there is more pie left for everyone else. Even if they take a bigger share of the pie, they have made the pie so much bigger that everyone else can have more pie–provided that they earn it. Everyone gets richer because the economy is bigger, much bigger! This is how great producers benefit everyone. This is how the United States became the richest nation on earth. A free people created more wealth. How much “wealth” was here when the Pilgrims arrived? There were lots of natural resources, but no wealth. Americans are the people who coined the phrase “to make money” which implies that wealth is created. A nation’s prosperity is proportional to its freedom! Get it?

One of the problems with collectivism is that it eventually shrinks the economy, a lot. It runs out of other people’s money because there is no incentive to work hard when everyone knows that they cannot make a better life for themselves. That is the reason why the communist Leon Trotsky said, “Those who shall not toil, shall not eat.” A collectivist country eventually becomes too poor to support anyone who does not work. There will be no welfare or entitlements because the country cannot afford them. Everyone must work. Those who do not will starve. If you are a cripple, or too stupid, or too old, tough. Those who shall not toil, shall not eat! Period!

The only valid concept of equality is “equality under the law”. Everyone has the same rights. Everyone is supposed to be treated the same by the law. Corruption is only made possible by the “politics of pull” which is cronyism. The term “crony capitalism” should be “crony fascism”. It is an integral part of collectivism, not of capitalism. Under genuine capitalism no politician or bureaucrat would have the power to do what you would bribe him to do. That is what a government of limited powers is all about. That is what our Constitution is all about. Get it?

The excellent book, Equal is Unfair, is highly recommended. It explains why the “everyone should be equal” mantra of Bernie Sanders is wrong. This is the book that will make the case for true justice, both in practical and philosophical terms. Solid book!

]]>http://cyber-assault.com/?feed=rss2&p=11600The Real Enemy is “Inside the Wire”!http://cyber-assault.com/?p=1155
http://cyber-assault.com/?p=1155#commentsSun, 03 Sep 2017 01:03:13 +0000Alan Egusahttp://cyber-assault.com/?p=1155Continue reading →]]>Below is an email I received this morning. I will try to briefly put it into a wider “big picture” perspective. The bottom line is that this is all about your freedoms. It is about the kind of government you will have in the future United States. This will determine whether or not you and your children will live as slaves. Your “right” to the pursuit of your happiness is in serious jeopardy.

Most Americans take their rights and freedoms for granted. Do you? Do you realize that there are hidden forces (the deep state) that are conspiring to take away your rights. Your freedoms are a consequence of your inalienable rights being honored and respected by others, and especially by your own government. Individual rights are not honored in dictatorships. That is why the subjects (not citizens) in a dictatorship are slaves,. They are property of the state. This is the future if the United States becomes a collectivist dictatorship.

The variations of collectivism are socialism, fascism, and communism. In all of them the government controls the people who do not have any rights. All forms of collectivism will eventually become dictatorships. All dictatorships are poor. A nation’s prosperity is proportional to its freedom. There will be no welfare or entitlements in an impoverished nation because it cannot afford to pay for them. Leon Trotsky the communist said, “Those who shall not toil shall not eat.” You will become the property of the state. When you outlive your usefulness, you will be disposed of. You will be an impoverished slave.

We now have a mixed economy in the United States. It is a mixture of capitalism and collectivism. The essence of capitalism is freedom. Anything you hear to the contrary is a lie. The collectivists do not want you to know the truth about capitalism. They want you to remain ignorant. Ignorant slaves are compliant and obedient. Ever wonder why Hitler burned the books in Germany? Ever wonder why Pol Pot ordered that all educated and professional people in Cambodia were to be killed? See the movie “The Killing Fields” to see what happened in Cambodia. Those who do not learn from history are destined to repeat it!

In Socialism the government owns the means of production. In Fascism most of the means of production are privately owned but controlled by the government through regulations. In our mixed economy, which form of collectivism do you now think we really have? Communism is the most extreme form of collectivism where the government owns everything, especially your life. The Soviet Union and Chairman Mao’s Red China are 20th century monuments to the bloodiness and abject poverty of communism. Remember the recent Olympics in Beijing, China. The course of the marathon was a road with walls on both sides. Tourists were not allowed on the other side of the walls. Those who looked through holes in the wall said that it was like a poverty stricken ghost town. That’s what the U.S. will look like after we become a collectivist dictatorship!

The easiest way to understand collectivism is to look at a honey bee hive. You will be a worker bee who has no rights. You will be expected to dedicate and even to sacrifice your life for your hive. You will be a replaceable worker bee, and the state will not care about you as an individual. You will simply be part of a group, part of the collective hive. Your moral duty will be to serve the “common good” of your hive.

There are many “socialists” in America today. I suspect that they do not realize what they are actually advocating. How can they knowingly aspire to be slaves? They believe in the fantasy of a socialist utopia where everyone will be literally “equal”. How long would you be happy if the person you work with is a lazy bum who does nothing? You will be expected to make up for what he doesn’t do, for the “common good” of the hive, and you will both “earn” the same amount on your paycheck. Could you be happy and satisfied with that arrangement? But, no one will care. Shut up and get to work! Don’t forget that you don’t have any rights! You are just an ignorant worker bee!

The only valid understanding of the concept of equality is equality under the law. All other versions are wrong. Otherwise, you too would be a millionaire professional basketball player in the NBA! Everyone has the same rights–which is like an opportunity; it is not a thing. No one has special rights that you do not have. No one has a right to violate your rights. No one has the right to force you to provide someone else with a false right like a job, a roof over his head, a meal, or a service. If a doctor is forced to provide medical care to any individual, what about the doctor’s rights? Doesn’t he have the same rights as everyone else? What about his right to freedom of association, which includes dis-association? Will he be forced to associate with a particular patient not of his choice? How does that work? Please explain that to me!

Will regulations control your life in the future United States? They cannot come from capitalism because the essence of capitalism is freedom. Freedom is all about choice. Regulations come from fascism! You do not have the choice to ignore a regulation–unless you happen to be one of the ruling elites. They do not need to be concerned with “the law”. Only worker bees like you need to obey “the law”. Privileges are not “equal” under any form of collectivism.

That’s enough for now. You hopefully get the general idea of what the Leftist radicals and progressives have in store for you. Will you meekly consent to becoming an ignorant and compliant worker bee?

This was sent to me by a former L.A. Police Officer. He likes to validate everything, and he did a outstanding job on this one.

30,000 people is a UNITED STATES ARMY division! This is a very large group of people to have in command.

Read it and understand it as well.

Hi all…

We got this e-mail from a dear friend in Oregon… I suspected it was false so I set to work researching it. Boy was I surprised! I have copied and pasted my quick WWW research at the bottom of this forward. This is a disappointment to say the least, that one former president and his political party would go to the mat on the streets of our Nation in such a manner.

If you have been wondering why former sheriff Arpaio was prosecuted for contempt… why the riots, at every presidential rally… the level of civil disobedience and violence at those demonstrations… the constant demonstration at Trump’s Offices in NYC…. the city council disruptions….and who could possibly be coordinating such nationwide turmoil…. Here is a clue.

Forget about ISIS, the real enemy is “inside the wire.”This helps to explain how things are being construed and instigated by our ex-president

An article from the New York Post:
I do not understand how living in a country with its democracy established over 200 years ago, and now, for the first time in history, suddenly we have one of our former presidents set up a group called “Organizing for Action” (OFA).

OFA is 30,000+ strong and working to disrupt everything that our current president’s administration is trying to do. This organization goes against our Democracy, and it is an operation that will destroy our way of governing. It goes against our Constitution, our laws, and the processes established over 200 years ago. If it is allowed to proceed then we will be living in chaos very much like third world countries are run. What good is it to have an established government if it is not going to be respected and allowed to follow our laws?

If you had an army some 30,000 strong and a court system stacked over the decades with judges who would allow you to break the laws, how much damage could you do to a country? We are about to find out in America!

Our ex-president said he was going to stay involved through community organizing and speak out on the issues and that appears to be one post-administration promise he intends to keep. He has moved many of his administration’s top dogs over to Organizing for Action.

OFA is behind the strategic and tactical implementation of the resistance to the Trump Administration that we are seeing across America, and politically active courts are providing the leverage for this revolution.

OFA members were propped up by the ex-president’s message from the shadows: “Organizing is the building block of everything great we have accomplished. Organizers around the country are fighting for change in their communities and OFA is one of the groups on the front lines. Commit to this work in 2017 and beyond.”

OFA’s website says it obtained its “digital” assets from the ex-president’s re-election effort and that he inspired the movement. In short, it is the shadow government organization aimed at resisting and tearing down the Constitutional Republic we know as AMERICA

Paul Sperry, writing for the New York Post, says, “The OFA will fight President Donald Trump at every turn of his presidency and the ex-president will command them from a bunker less than two miles from the White House.”

Sperry writes that, “The ex-president is setting up a shadow government to sabotage the Trump administration through a network of non-profits led by OFA, which is growing its war chest (more than $40 million) and has some 250 offices nationwide. The OFA IRS filings, according to Sperry, indicate that the OFA has 32,525 (and growing) volunteers nationwide. The ex-president and his wife will oversee the operation from their home/ office in Washington DC.

Think about how this works. For example: Trump issues an immigration executive order; the OFA signals for protests and statements from pro-immigrant groups; the ACLU lawyers file lawsuits in jurisdictions where activist judges obstruct the laws; volunteers are called to protest at airports and Congressional town hall meetings; the leftist media springs to action in support of these activities; the twitter sphere lights up with social media; and violence follows. All of this happens from the ex-president’s signal that he is heartened by the protests.

If Barack Obama did not do enough to destroy this country in the 8 years he was in office, it appears his future plans are to destroy the foundation on which this country has operated on for the last 241 years.

If this does not scare you, then we are in worse trouble than you know.

So, do your part. You have read it, so at least pass this on so others will know what we are up against. We are losing our country and we are so compliant. We are becoming a “PERFECT TARGET” for our enemy!______________________________________________________________________

=====Here (below) is the copy and paste of the brief research I did in checking out the above article. =====

This is from the official OFA Web-site:

OUR STORY

Organizing for Action (OFA) is a movement of millions of Americans, coming together to fight for real, lasting change.

The 5 million Americans who’ve taken action with OFA are part of a long line of people who stand up and take on the big fights for social justice, basic fairness, equal rights, and expanding opportunity.

Organizing for Action (OFA) is a nonprofit 501(c)4 organization and community organizing … It is the successor of Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign and of Organizing for America, which itself succeeded Obama’s 2008 campaign. Founded …

Welcome to the Office of Barack and Michelle Obama. We Love You Back. Play video … Organizing For Action. ofa.us · Obama Foundation. obama.org.

]]>http://cyber-assault.com/?feed=rss2&p=11550Criticizing Thomas Jeffersonhttp://cyber-assault.com/?p=1148
http://cyber-assault.com/?p=1148#commentsMon, 21 Aug 2017 22:10:40 +0000Alan Egusahttp://cyber-assault.com/?p=1148Continue reading →]]>Anyone who criticizes Thomas Jefferson or any of our Founding Fathers because they owned slaves is a complete idiot! They are implying that everyone must be both correct and consistent in their views. Are they? The first thing they should do is to take an honest look in the mirror to see the biggest hypocrite in their own miserable lives.

Slavery was an accepted and integral part of the economy and society at the time of the Founding Fathers. It had a history of thousands of years. Anyone who was against it would be considered a radical or rebel, as was abolitionist John Brown 80 years later. Even if Jefferson was philosophically against slavery, how do you expect him to change the views and economy of the entire society of his time?

Socialism is viewed favorably by a sizable minority today. If our country survives as a semi-free nation, which is against all odds, people 200 years from now will look at socialism as evil. The dream of a socialist utopia will be considered foolish. They will see the people of our time who advocate it as incredibly stupid. You might be incredulous, but that is my belief. Socialism is evil because it is one of the three variations of collectivism. The other two are Communism and Fascism. Collectivism and all of its variations can be understood with the analogy of the honey bee hive. That hive is a collective. The worker bees who belong to that hive have a duty to sacrifice their lives for the “common good” of their hive. They do not possess individual rights.

The opposite of collectivism is individualism. The United States was founded as an individualist nation. Each individual citizen posses certain inalienable rights. When these rights are honored and respected by others and especially by his own government, the result is freedom. A nation’s prosperity is proportional to its freedom. I personally do not understand how anyone in a semi-free country like the U.S. can be an advocate of collectivism. Controls breed controls, and collectivism inevitably ends up as a dictatorship which enslaves its citizens. An advocate of collectivism is therefore an advocate of slavery. Any person today who enjoys his rights and freedom while living here but advocates socialism is a hypocrite!

This is a brief explanation of why I consider those who look down at Thomas Jefferson or any of our Founders because they owned slaves as stupid. They fail to look at context, and they fail to connect all of the dots. Something is really wrong with the way they think!

Matt Schlapp: Left ‘Going Right After the Founders’ with War on History

Officials to add slavery plaque to Jefferson Memorial so visitors can consider former president’s ‘complexity’

There are idiots today who want to tear down a statue of Robert E. Lee, the famous Civil War general. What I said about those above who denigrate our Founders also applies here. General Lee was a true hero and gentleman who can properly be a role model today. He was a loyal Virginian who was offered command of the Union Army at the beginning of the Civil War. The morons today who would malign him do not know the history of the debate between State’s rights versus the power of the Federal government. They do not deserve to stand in Lee’s shadow.

Robert E. Lee Works Poorly as the Left’s Confederate Villain

Historians say iconic general who opposed slavery is too complex to be defined by modern politics

]]>http://cyber-assault.com/?feed=rss2&p=11480Cultural Appropriationhttp://cyber-assault.com/?p=1145
http://cyber-assault.com/?p=1145#commentsSat, 19 Aug 2017 21:37:26 +0000Alan Egusahttp://cyber-assault.com/?p=1145Continue reading →]]>The idea of cultural appropriation is stupid on its face! The idiots who came up with it are intellectual retards! If I go to a Mexican restaurant, I am honoring Mexican cuisine and culture by spending my money on it. The restaurant owners will be happy for the increased sales which adds to the profitability of their restaurant. The owners are also promoting Mexican culture! How many obscure cultures would disappear if individuals outside of that culture did not honor it by actively studying and promoting it?

Going further, the ideas of democracy and individual rights were born in ancient Greece. Then, there is a long history of the evolution of these ideas in Western civilization which culminated in the birth of the United States, the first moral country in history because it was founded on the principle of individual rights. Some refer to Aristotle as the first Founding Father because we would not have been possible without him.

So is the existence of the U.S. not proper because it culturally appropriated its fundamental ideas from ancient Greece? Or, is it not proper for Americans, for this nation of immigrants, to enjoy their rights and freedoms which are appropriated from another culture? The fundamental ideas at the core of the United States form the essentials of the ideology of freedom. The ideas at the core of most other cultures inconsistently form most of the essentials of the ideology of dictatorship, and thus of slavery. Are the idiots who are against “cultural appropriation” saying that it is proper for most people to be slaves? Ours is an age of irrationality which is becoming more blatant every day. The idea of cultural appropriation is a good example of their idiocy.

]]>http://cyber-assault.com/?feed=rss2&p=11450Comments on Global Warminghttp://cyber-assault.com/?p=1141
http://cyber-assault.com/?p=1141#commentsMon, 31 Jul 2017 22:37:33 +0000Alan Egusahttp://cyber-assault.com/?p=1141Continue reading →]]>A new study ‘blows the Greenhouse Theory out of the water”. Interesting…. It will take several years for the shock of all of this to be reviewed and verified, but at least it might be okay now to be skeptical about global warming.

My commentary below is not affected by the article above. It is valid whether the greenhouse theory turns out to be true or not.

Regarding their “studies”, many modern scientists are dishonest and disingenuous. The conclusions of these “scientists” ultimately serve their political agenda, not science. As scientists they presumably follow the scientific method. This implies that they tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth regarding their research. They are not allowed to “cherry pick” their data in order to manipulate their “conclusions” into fitting their preconceptions or their politics. The scientific method strongly implies that scientists should be responsible and honest.

However, many of these climate scientists are dependent on research grants from the government. The way to ensure that they receive and continue to receive these grants is to give the politicians what they want, which is the scare tactics of alarmism. Politicians need a crisis so that they, as conquering heroes, can provide the solution. This is explains how modern scientists can be influenced to be biased in their papers and research.

But, there are a few “scientists” who are outright liars without any plausible excuse. Their “conclusions” are speculations based on flawed data and defective “climate models”, for example. As alarmists they are blatantly dishonest and disingenuous. Part of telling the “whole truth” is to give the positive along with the potential negative. What are the positive consequences of using neonic pesticides in agriculture? Blank out. The alarmists never mention the positive effects of a plentiful supply of honey. (see article below for more detail)

Regarding the global warming scare, the consequences of not using fossil fuels today would be millions of human deaths worldwide. Virtually everything we do and enjoy in modern civilization depends on cheap, plentiful, and reliable energy. Look at any critical care facility in a modern hospital, for example, or the supply of clean water. Fossil fuels provide us with the majority of our electric power without which modern civilization as we know it could not exist. The current population could not be supported. Outlawing fossil fuels would throw us back into the Dark Ages, and the U.S. would become a third world nation, at best. Please connect the dots and realize what you’re doing! Anyone who advocates the outlawing of fossil fuels is really advocating the killing of millions of human beings around the world!

I am currently reading an excellent and illuminating book entitled, The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, by Alex Epstein. My comments above rely heavily on Mr. Epstein’s methods, approach, and conclusions. I very highly recommend his book!

Alex Epstein uses human quality of life as his standard of value, as his basis for comparison. The radical environmentalists use a pristine earth untouched by man as their standard. By that standard anything man does must be bad. The only thing that will make them happy is if humans went extinct. In approximately 1989 radical environmentalist David Graber said, “We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth. It is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will choose to end its orgy of fossil energy consumption, and the Third World its suicidal consumption of landscape. Until such time as Homo Sapiens should decide to rejoin nature, some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along.” (…to cause the extinction of mankind.)

Comment from Alex Epstein: “Historically and today, there is a shocking disconnect between our highly negative overall moral assessment of using coal, oil, and natural gas and the incredibly positive overall consequences that they have had on human life. The claim that fossil fuels are an addiction whose benefits are far outweighed by the long-term costs of catastrophic climate change, catastrophic pollution, and catastrophic resource depletion is not a new one. It has been made for the last 40 years by many of today’s most prestigious thinkers (Amory Lovins, Paul Ehrlich, John Holdren, Bill McKibben). And it has been exactly wrong: the rapid increase of fossil fueled machines in the world has enabled us to improve every aspect of human well-being—life expectancy, infant mortality, nourishment, income, as well as key environmental metrics such as water quality, sanitation, and, perhaps most startling of all, climate danger (climate-related deaths are at record lows, down 98% over the last 80 years).”

Wind and solar power are too dilute and too intermittent to be reliable sources that can be scaled up for mass electrical power generation. Fossil fuels are depended upon to fill the gaps when wind or solar power is unavailable. Also, what about the pollution problems involved in the manufacture of solar panels and batteries? And, what about the problem of the safe disposal of these “green” items at the end of their useful life? The heavy metals used in their manufacture will always be a potential pollution problem.

Electric cars are another “green” item that have problems with the safe manufacture and disposal of their batteries, and they need mass generation of reliable electrical power to recharge their batteries to keep the cars running. I’m sure we will eventually solve most of these technological problems in the future, but until then we need to depend upon fossil fuels for mass generation of cheap and reliable electrical power.

How would your personal life change if you stopped using all of the modern conveniences produced and powered by reliable fossil fuels? No cars, airplanes, computers, cell phones, modern medical care, paved roads, plentiful food, clean water, fashionable clothes, grooming items, and leisure time to enjoy your life. Technology powered by fossil fuels has also made the environment in the U.S. much cleaner than in China because we’re more developed than China. How would you like to live and support yourself in a third world country without all of the benefits of a modern and prosperous civilization? How would you like to breathe the air in a smoky hut every day just to cook your food? That is what you’re encouraging 3rd world countries to do when you tell them to use costly and undependable “renewable energy” rather than using affordable and reliable fossil fuels. Are you mean-spirited?

Mandating by law that a certain percentage of the energy in our own country must be produced by “renewable sources” by a specific date “mandates” that innovations occur by a specific date. Could the innovation of the iPhone have been mandated? Would the legislators have even conceived of an iPhone before Steve Jobs did? And, who will innovate when you burden them with impractical regulations so that they cannot profit from or even perform their work? That’s what big government and government control ultimately means. That’s why all dictatorships are poor. A nation’s prosperity is proportional to its freedom! Citizens in a free society have the freedom to think, innovate, and profit; subjects in a dictatorship do not. Think about it, and connect all of the dots!

The cost of nuclear power has gone way up because of the massive amount of regulations that must be complied with today. The radical environmentalists are responsible for causing these regulations, and thus for drastically increasing the cost of nuclear power. Then, they say it’s impractical because it costs too much!

A major factor in any case of poisoning is dosage. The same principle applies to radioactivity, and we should remember that all matter is radioactive to some degree. However, the amount of radioactivity is often not mentioned in a nuclear accident. The media may state that radioactive gas escaped, but they may not mention the amount of radioactivity in that gas. To sensationalize their news they allow you to assume that the amount was dangerous to humans. Yet, you personally may have emitted more radioactivity the last time you farted.

]]>http://cyber-assault.com/?feed=rss2&p=11410What Memorial Day Really Meanshttp://cyber-assault.com/?p=1136
http://cyber-assault.com/?p=1136#commentsMon, 29 May 2017 11:10:11 +0000Alan Egusahttp://cyber-assault.com/?p=1136Continue reading →]]>On Memorial Day we should be aware of and appreciate what our military men fought for. They fought and many died for our rights and freedoms. Our rights should be considered sacred. Americans need to better understand what individual rights are, and are not. We are losing more every day because Americans do not understand what they are, and are not.

Snowflakes are the spoiled and ignorant college kids who “demand” that they be provided “safe spaces” on university campuses where they will be protected from “micro-aggressions” being committed against them. A micro-aggression is committed if you verbally say anything that that is not consistent with their naive world view and is therefore offensive to their sensibilities because it makes them “feel” uncomfortable. But, facts don’t care about your feelings. This is one of the consequences of the pseudo self-esteem movement. No one can give someone else self-esteem. It must be earned. Self-centered snowflakes are so delicate because they don’t possess self-esteem!

But, college is where you’re supposed to go to be exposed to all manner of ideas, the “market place of ideas”. Then, you’re supposed to think about them and develop your own rational arguments why you are in favor of or opposed to these ideas. This is what we all do in real life, and college is supposed to prepare you for real life. It is supposed to educate you so that you can better articulate why you hold the views that you do. You’re supposed to be able to articulate why you believe in freedom versus slavery, free choice versus coercion or compulsion, individual rights versus false moral duties, or individualism versus collectivism. You’re supposed to be educated, to be able to rationally explain the why, to make sense. That is what we expect you to able to do as a mature and educated adult. And the crowning glory is to be able to explain how America is different from all other countries and thus why America is great!

But that is not what college kids are taught these days. They are taught that America is immoral, not moral. Everything is turned upside down and backwards. They are taught that America exploits not only its own poor, but the world’s poor. They are not taught how we can make so much money off of the poor who have none. They are not taught that Americans originated the phrase “to make money” which implies that wealth is created, not expropriated. They are not taught that Marx’s Exploitation Theory is wrong. They are taught the principles of collectivism, the three forms of which are socialism, fascism, and communism. They are taught that every person should be paid the same amount, regardless of what or how much they produce, even if they receive welfare and don’t produce anything. They are not taught that equality under the law is the only valid application of the concept of equality.

One of the reasons that Trump won was because Hillary was given “special treatment” and was not prosecuted for her email scandal where she compromised national security. The so called “silent majority” still believes in the traditional American principle of equality under the law. If they would be prosecuted, then Hillary should be prosecuted. That is fair. You should get what you earn, both in economics and in the legal system. And yes, these are some of the principles that made America great!

“Antifa” is short for anti-fascist. What a joke! They are the fascists! The antifa’s are accusing anyone who espouses traditional American principles of being fascists. Why? Because they are collectivists and are fighting to eliminate our rights and freedoms, all the while depending on their right to free speech. Hypocrisy? They are ignorant of the fact that fascism is one of the three variations of collectivism. The opposite of collectivism is individualism, and America is the best example of a country of individualism–at least for the first century and a half of its existence. We have been indoctrinated into being collectivist for over a century because there has been no coherent philosophical opposition. Now there is. I am giving you some of it. Officially, it called Objectivism, the philosophy of Ayn Rand. Collectivism ends with dictatorship, and therefore with slavery. Individualism logically follows from individual rights and results in freedom. Americans need to get this straight so that they are not vulnerable to the politically correct (collectivist) nonsense.

A Message for All the Communist Antifa Snowflakes: Pay Attention & Learn Something

What they’re saying is that you can’t work in a Mexican restaurant if you’re not Mexican. If you do, then you are “appropriating” or stealing from the Mexican culture. Have you ever heard of anything so stupid? In a sense you are honoring the Mexican culture if you work in a Mexican restaurant and are not Mexican! You are affirming that their food is good! If applied universally, then you can’t work in an Italian restaurant unless you’re Italian. You can’t work in a Chinese restaurant if you’re not Chinese, etc. Principles go both ways so let’s try it. If you’re Mexican, then you can’t work in an Italian restaurant. If you’re Italian you can’t work in a Chinese restaurant. If you’re Chinese you can’t work in a Mexican restaurant. So, who can work at McDonalds? How un-American is all of this? Our country’s traditional motto “E Pluribus Unum” means “out of many, one”. You are an individual. What racial extraction you happen to be is irrelevant. What’s important is what’s in your heart. That is America. “Cultural Appropriation” is racist! It is collectivist. Racism is a primitive form of collectivism; my tribe, my group. For the most part Americans have rejected racism. The collectivists are trying their best to bring it back!

]]>http://cyber-assault.com/?feed=rss2&p=11360Do You Know Your Ideology?http://cyber-assault.com/?p=1120
http://cyber-assault.com/?p=1120#commentsTue, 16 May 2017 19:41:30 +0000Alan Egusahttp://cyber-assault.com/?p=1120Continue reading →]]>The title essay (first chapter) in the small paperback Philosophy: Who Needs It? may be the most important essay for young people to read, but it is not enough by itself. The essay explains that philosophy underlies all of our views, opinions, and perspectives. It is a conceptual connection that cannot be denied. But beyond that, young people searching for meaning in their lives need to know that there is an answer, there is a solution for them and for America so they should not despair–but time to act is short. The answer is a “philosophy for living on earth”; one that can rationally explain why their highest purpose is to achieve their personal happiness in their lifetime–and that this is realistically possible.

Many young people who discover Ayn Rand are enraptured by her, then they “grow up”. Their “adult” conclusion is that Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism does not really work in the real world. The problem is not with Objectivism but with their lack of depth in understanding. If they live long enough and become wise enough, they might eventually come full circle. They will realize that they had the answer, but that they rejected it because they did not delve deeply enough, they did not investigate deeply enough, they did not understand deeply enough. Why? Because philosophy is very abstract by its nature. It deals with the most fundamental principles and premises underlying all.

Connecting the dots in all aspects of life requires the mental task of integration, of combining all of your knowledge into a harmonious whole. This is more difficult when dealing with philosophy because fundamental ideas are very abstract. However, man is the rational animal; he possesses a conceptual consciousness. The higher animals operate on the perceptual level, but man alone is capable of operating on the conceptual level and of grasping abstract concepts. With the exception of proper names, every word in the English language is a concept. One of the many problems with public (government) education is that it does not teach students how to think conceptually, how to properly use their rational faculty. If you do learn to think, connecting the dots should not be too difficult.

A big problem in America today is that we are very polarized, politically. There are two opposite fundamental ideologies that are absolutely not compatible. But, people do not understand the nature of these ideologies which leads them to be very mixed in their views. They select elements from both of these ideologies and do not realize that those elements are incompatible, that they cannot be mixed. Thus, their personal views are contradictory, but they do not realize it. The only solution is for each individual to spend enough time learning about these fundamental ideas and reflecting on them. They need to grasp the wider implications and consequences, i.e., to connect the dots. Only then can we preserve individual rights and freedom in America for the long term.

There are five branches in Philosophy. Seeing them in outline form will help your understanding.

Metaphysics Epistemology

(Study of existence) (Study of knowledge)

* Ethics

Politics Esthetics

* (Philosophy of art)

To complete the outline above, please draw two lines in the shape of an “X” to connect the opposite corners. These added lines should intersect at the center where Ethics is located. I do not know how to add these lines in this computer program so please do it for me. Thank you.

With the above outline you can visually see how the branches of philosophy are logically connected and hierarchically related. The combination of metaphysics and epistemology comprise the most fundamental level of all human knowledge. Once you understand that you exist and that you know something, you can then ask “what ought I do?” This is the subject of ethics which is concerned with the proper conduct of an individual. Once you know how you as an individual should act, only then can you address the question of how you should act among others in a society. This is the subject of politics. Do you see the logical order? Do you understand the necessity of this progression, of these mental steps?

To more fully grasp the concept of hierarchy, consider an example from mathematics. Learning to count is the most fundamental level. On the basis of knowing how to count, you can then learn addition and subtraction. Then, on the basis of knowing counting, addition, and subtraction, you can learn multiplication and division. Finally, with an understanding of all of the previous levels, you can learn algebra. Understand?

One of the problems in public (government) school education today is that they violate hierarchy, the logical order of learning. I once saw a simple problem in a 3rd grade math text. It showed four ways to solve that problem. There was the Egyptian method, the matrix method, and two other methods of which I’ve forgotten the names. In 3rd grade?!!! Methodology is an appropriate subject in college, maybe upper division or graduate school, but in the 3rd grade? All a 3rd grader needs are the 3 R’s: reading, writing, and arithmetic! Attempting to teach him methodology is to present a valid element but out of its logical order of learning–and it is too advanced for 3rd grade. This will forever warp his mind! The only way for him to “survive” his education (indoctrination) is to memorize (because genuine understanding becomes impossible when hierarchy is violated) and to be conditioned to accept “facts” from an authority (whether school teacher or political dictator) without examination or inquiry (questioning).

Yes, all of this is related–and important. You need to be able to connect the dots in order to see that America is in big trouble. Have you “survived” your education and are still capable of thinking? You have fewer rights and freedoms than most of your fellow “citizens” (subjects) realize, and you are losing those that remain at an alarming rate. This is an important reason to pay attention to what is happening around you and to be aware, to be observant and mentally active. This is also why you need to understand the structure of philosophy and thus of an ideology. It has practical, real world consequences that will directly affect your life whether you realize it or not.

Let us look at an issue in each branch of philosophy and see what happens when these separate elements are combined. In metaphysics (study of existence), the issue is objective reality versus unreality or other realities. In epistemology (study of the nature and structure of knowledge), reason versus mysticism. In ethics, rational egoism (selfishness) versus altruism (selflessness). In politics, individualism versus collectivism. The study of esthetics (philosophy of art) is important, but it is not the topic of this article. Taking the combination of the first element in each pair of issues in each of the branches, here is what the outline looks like:

Objective reality Reason

* Rational egoism

* Rights

Individualism Romanticism

This is an outline of the ideology of freedom. Again, please complete the outline by adding two lines in the shape of an “X” to connect the opposite corners. When implemented, individualism in politics results in laissez faire capitalism, the essence of which is freedom. The real scale in politics is individualism versus collectivism, not liberal versus conservative, nor left versus right. Most politicians in Washington DC are collectivists, regardless of their party affiliation.

The ideology of freedom comes from Objectivism, the philosophy of Ayn Rand. An individual right is the concept that logically connects an ethics of selfishness to a politics of individualism. Rights are a selfish concept because you have a right to your life, to your liberty, and to the pursuit of your happiness. Selfishness properly defined is good! The primary beneficiary of your actions should be yourself because you, the individual, are the fundamental unit of value in individualism. Yes, it is also appropriate for you to intend to benefit others if those others are a value to you. Examples are your wife, sibling, or good friend. This is rational egoism. There is much confusion in this area, and you must clear it up in your own mind because it is crucial to your peace of mind and happiness.

The only fundamental argument against capitalism is that it is evil because it is selfish; it is the assumption that greed is bad. The question of whether or not capitalism is moral logically depends upon whether or not selfishness is moral. That is why the idea that “selfishness is good” is so important. The power of morality and of this idea will literally dictate whether your children will live in freedom with their rights intact or as sacrificial slaves under a brutal collectivist dictatorship.

Conventional wisdom says that a selfish man will be greedy. He will lie, cheat, and steal. The problem is that lying, cheating, and stealing do not work. These actions do not serve a man’s best interest within the context of his entire lifetime. What does work is studying hard in school, earning a college degree, getting a good job, working hard, building a reputation for honesty and dependability, and being a good friend. If you are good to your friends, you will have and keep good friends. This is philosophic selfishness, concern with one’s own long term interests. The requirement of being long term necessitates being rational. Philosophic selfishness is rational self interest. Greed is okay if it is rational. Conventional wisdom is wrong–and imprecise!

The United States was founded on an individualist politics. This is the source of your “inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”. An individualist politics faithfully implemented would result in laissez faire capitalism which is characterized by a small government of very limited powers. Most Americans do not understand what capitalism is and that its essence is freedom. Our Founding Fathers did not have the big three, conclusions in the three most fundamental branches of philosophy that provide the essential base of individualism: objective reality in metaphysics, reason in epistemology, and rational egoism in ethics. (See outline) The combination of these ideological elements were unknown in their time. Only in the mid-twentieth century did Ayn Rand make these explicit for the first time in history and thereby provide the ideological foundation for freedom.

Ayn Rand declared that in its original founding documents, the United States was the only moral nation in history because it was founded on the principle of individual rights. She also asserted that the Declaration of Independence is the greatest political document in history. Against the long tradition of a division between morality and practicality in philosophy, she showed how they are necessarily connected. An example of this connection is my principle that “a nation’s prosperity is proportional to its freedom”. If you look at the world you will see that all dictatorships are poor. There are no exceptions. The most prosperous countries are semi-free. There are no completely free countries. America was the freest country for the first century and a half of its existence, and this is the source of both her wealth (practicality) and her (moral) greatness. The moral is the practical. To make America great again, we must first make America free again!

Combining the second element in the previously stated issues in each branch of philosophy results in the following outline:

Unreality or Mysticism

other realities

* Altruism

* Moral Duty

Collectivism Naturalism

This is an outline of the ideology that results in slavery. Again, please complete the outline by adding two lines in the shape of an “X” to connect the opposite corners.

A brief explanation is in order. Have you heard of Plato’s world of forms? In metaphysics Plato believed that this world that we live in is an imperfect reflection of the perfect world of forms. The world of forms was also the source of alleged innate knowledge which is the basis of mysticism, of “knowledge” for which there is no rational explanation or evidence.

Aristotle did not agree. Aristotle, the philosopher, is known as the father of logic and believed that the world we live in is the only reality, that there are no other worlds. Plato and Aristotle were opposites on all of the fundamentals. Aristotle was a student of Plato for 20 years before breaking off and founding his own school, the Lyceum. Plato’s school was the Academy.

The history of Western philosophy is mostly a series of footnotes to Plato. That is why dictatorships are so prevalent today–which is a practical consequence of the widespread acceptance of the ideology of slavery. These fundamental ideas have real life consequences, and that is why it is so important for you to be aware of them. Whether or not you and your children are free or are slaves will be determined by fundamental ideas. Your only choice is whether to be aware of them based on rigorous study, or to be ignorant and have them rule your life by default. In either case you cannot escape the power and consequences of fundamental ideas.

Yes, I am saying that Aristotle’s philosophy, with corrections by Ayn Rand, provides the ideology that results in freedom. Plato’s philosophy with its evolution throughout the history of Western philosophy provides the ideology that leads to dictatorship, and thus to slavery. I am attempting to make all of this clear to you so that you can unambiguously choose your path.

One key idea that is causing havoc everywhere in modern times is altruism, the ethical belief that we have a moral duty to provide for the needy. This is extremely important because altruism is the ethical foundation of the welfare state, of entitlements, and of all forms of government redistribution of the wealth–which is a violation of property rights. It gives the government and dictators a moral sanction to rob Peter in order to pay (or give to) Paul. The welfare state cannot be eliminated until the ethics of altruism is invalidated and discredited.

Altruism does not mean benevolence as most people mistakenly believe. It does not mean kindness or good will toward others. It does not mean helping others when and if you can. Giving a dime to a beggar does not make you an altruist. Since you have a moral duty to subordinate your interests to the interests of others, you already owed him that dime! It is in this way that altruism actually makes benevolence impossible. Your giving is not considered kindness or generosity but moral duty. It demands that you sacrifice all of your values: material, intellectual, and spiritual. You may not even hold firm moral convictions because that would be selfish. Altruism is a false moral code, not a practical way to live a successful life. If all of your values and convictions must be sacrificed to the group (collective), who or what are you? Are you selfless? There can be no self-esteem without a “self”. But, a worker bee in a collectivist honey bee hive does not need self-esteem. (The information in this paragraph comes from a panel discussion with Ayn Rand on the Psychology of Altruism, WKCR radio)

Is it better to give than to receive? If so, what is the status of the person who receives? Altruism never addresses this question. It never addresses whether or not the person who gives is morally superior to the person who receives. Why not? Ayn Rand identifies three basic groups of people: producers, moochers, and looters. Effective thinking and action results in production, and man survives by consuming what he produces. He cannot thrive in pure nature as the animals do. Producers create the hospitable environments in which humans can flourish. Moochers beg for the producer’s goods, looters steal them. By the way a dictator is a looter. Connect the dots, and you will see that he is a parasite. Producers are the only ones who are essential for human survival. Capitalism is the system of freedom geared to the requirements of producers. Collectivism is comprised of systems suited to the needs of moochers and looters.

Philosopher Immanuel Kant took altruism to its logical conclusion. He said that if you sacrifice yourself on earth in order to gain a reward in heaven, you would still benefit and thus you were still selfish. A moral action according to Kant could not benefit you at all. You must sacrifice for the sake of sacrifice. A man would die if he consistently followed such a code, and this fact reveals its essence. Altruism is the ethics of sacrifice fueled by your unearned guilt (the sanction of the victim). It is anti-man and anti-man’s life. This is why altruism is an evil moral code.

Moral duty is the concept that logically connects an ethics of altruism to a politics of collectivism. A good way to understand collectivism is with the analogy of the honey bee hive. The citizen in any pure form of collectivism is a worker bee and has no rights. He has only a moral duty to work and sacrifice his life for his hive, for his collective, whether that group is his village, community, country, religion, or race. The personal happiness of a citizen in a collective is irrelevant; his life is expendable. All that matters is that he contributes to the survival and to the “common good” of his hive–which is the fundamental unit of value in collectivism, not the individual who is a replaceable worker bee. His life is relevant only to the extent of his sacrifice. His moral worth is judged by how much he sacrifices. Altruism is the ethics of sacrifice.

When implemented collectivism results in one of its three variations: socialism, fascism, or communism. They differ in degree but not in kind and are characterized by an all-powerful big government. They all end in some form of dictatorship, in the enslavement of the worker bee who has a moral duty to sacrifice his life for his hive, for his collective, for his group, for others, for anyone but himself. He is selfless.

We have a mixed economy in America today. It is an unstable mixture of capitalism and collectivism, and it is unstable because, like oil and water, two incompatible opposites cannot be permanently mixed. Communism is the most extreme version of collectivism. Two 20th century examples were the Soviet Union and Chairman Mao’s Red China. The first was responsible for the brutal deaths of at least 50 million people. The second was responsible for twice that many. In such a setting what would your life be worth? Fundamental ideas really do have real world consequences!

Do you know the difference between socialism and fascism? Under socialism the government owns the means of production. Under fascism they are mostly privately owned but controlled by the government through regulations. Which version do we have in America?

Very few Americans understand the nature of capitalism. The ideologically pure version is known as laissez faire capitalism. Its essence is freedom: political, economic, and individual freedom. It is the consequence of your individual rights being honored and respected by everyone, and especially by your own government.

I will now state something that you will probably consider radical, at least initially, but please examine the logic of it. The source of a regulation is fascism, not capitalism. If the essence of capitalism is freedom, how do you get a regulation out of that? Of course, we must make a clear distinction between a law and a regulation. Having a clear meaning for any word would be going against the modern trend, but that trend is moving us rapidly toward collectivism, toward dictatorship. If you want conformity, then you can still choose to be a compliant slave. But, once you become a worker bee in a dictatorship, you will no longer have any significant choices left. You will have become a replaceable and expendable component in your collective. A proper law would protect your rights; a regulation violates them. Worker bees do not have rights; expendable components do not need them, nor are they important enough deserve them. Under laissez faire capitalism your rights would be sacred, and that is why you would be free. Regulations could not exist in a context of freedom! Regulations come from the fascism in our mixed economy. They are fascist!

Most Americans do not understand what rights are, and are not. That is why we have been losing so many of them. Let us briefly examine the example of property rights. Ayn Rand stated that a man who does not own what he produces is a slave. Robbing Peter to pay (or to give to) Paul is immoral because it is theft. Whether that theft is committed by the local criminal, the mafia, or the government, it is still theft! It is still morally wrong! Redistribution of the wealth by government is theft, pure and simple. Whether in the form of welfare, entitlements, subsidies, or anything else, it is a violation of the property rights of the person who earned the money. We need to assertively repeat to our government the words of Davy Crockett, the hero of the Alamo in 1836 who served three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. My money is “not yours to give”. There is nothing wrong with giving, but only if it is your choice to give only yourown money. Genuine compassion is giving your own money; counterfeit compassion is giving someone else’s money! Politicians are only generous with your money!

There is no such thing as a “right” to violate the rights of another, to initiate physical force on others. The alleged “right” to medical care is an example of a false right. If you force a doctor to treat a patient against his will, to that extent you make him a slave. A doctor has the same rights that you do. Everyone has the same rights which implies that we must refrain from violating the rights of others–or thereby forfeit our own. To force anyone to provide another with any good or service to which that other has an alleged “right” is to violate the rights of the first person. False rights destroy genuine rights. You really do need to understand the difference. To force one to associate with another is a violation of the first person’s right of association, and of disassociation. Freedom is all about choice. A bilateral contract is the model for freedom. One must voluntarily become a party to a bilateral contract, or there is no contract. It is the essence of a free market.

The link at the very bottom will take you to an essay that will give you to an explanation of Ayn Rand’s theory of rights. It is rooted in reality, not in mysticism. It is demonstrably true. It is part of the reason why Rand is my greatest hero. Aristotle is my second hero. Many consider him to be the first Founding Father of the United States because his ideas made America possible.

The battle for rights and freedom in America is an ideological one. It is a battle of ideas. For over a hundred years the ideology of slavery (and recently of political correctness) has been winning by default because of the lack of a coherent and easily understood alternative. This commentary is an attempt to briefly explain and simplify the issue–and to give you that alternative. The ideology of freedom can win only if we are able to understand and clearly articulate it. Freedom is what made America great. It is only freedom that can make her great again. It is a cause worth fighting for! The default option is for you and your children to live as slaves. As Thomas Jefferson said, the price of liberty is eternal vigilance (with an active and observant mind)!

It has been said that “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” Those naive idealists who believe in a Socialist Utopia have no idea of the essential evil of all forms of collectivism–or do they? We must literally fight for our very lives against the establishment of any form of collectivism in America! Inevitably, it will lead to dictatorship and (your) slavery.

Two or three decades ago the Democrats were the red states and the Republicans were the blue states. Then, during Obama’s 2008 Presidential campaign, the colors were switched! Brilliant! Some smart guy switched the colors because he didn’t want the “red” Democrats to be associated with the Red Communists. That association is accurate, and he didn’t want anyone to connect the dots. The Democrats, Obama, and the radical Left all share the ideology of slavery. They also follow it far more consistently than the Republicans (who do not understand the ideology of freedom at all) follow its opposite, and that is why slavery is winning. Ideological consistency is important. That is why our country is rapidly becoming a collectivist dictatorship.

Most citizens, whether Democrat or Republican, are very mixed in their ideologies. They are not aware of what their ideology is, let alone know what it means. That is why an advocate of collectivism will sincerely claim to be an American patriot who believes in rights. In reality what he actually believes in are “false rights”, and he does not understand that his professed ideology would make him a slave. My motive in writing this commentary is to enlighten him–and you. We need to turn our country around so that we can be a free country again.

Karl Marx famously said that “Machines create intelligence”. He had it backwards. It was intelligence that created the first machine. Cause and effect cannot be reversed. Marx was fundamentally wrong.

Background info: Classical liberalism in the beginning of the 20th century meant the opposite of what liberalism means today. Classical liberalism was synonymous with laissez faire capitalism. Liberalism today is statism, the advocating of the all-powerful state. It is collectivism, not individualism. Today’s liberal is a statist, an advocate of the collectivist honey bee hive and, thus, of slavery! Beware of fuzzy word meanings and language manipulation by the liberals, progressives, and radical Left. Current words often mean the opposite of what they once meant and of what you still think they mean! That is why things seem so upside down and backwards today. The goal is to turn all worker bees into slaves–who only learn later that they have willingly walked into a trap. It is brilliant to manipulate someone into digging his own grave; it is ignorant and stupid for him to do it. That is the goal of language manipulation. Beware of fake news! Stupid is as stupid does. Thomas Jefferson famously said that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance!

One of Ayn Rand’s great achievements was to derive good and evil from the facts of reality. She is the only person in history to have ever done this. She thereby removed ethics from the monopoly of religion and mysticism and placed it firmly into the province of reason. I had been consciously searching for a rational basis of ethics during my college years. I was very fortunate to have found it in Objectivism. It was my salvation! Rand’s theory of individual rights rests directly on her Objectivist ethics. There is a seamless connection. If you read and understand the essay below, you will be enlightened!

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http://cyber-assault.com/?p=1113#commentsMon, 30 Jan 2017 22:54:50 +0000Alan Egusahttp://cyber-assault.com/?p=1113Continue reading →]]>Emotionalism has become far too common and acceptable in our culture today. Real knowledge is derived from reality through the use of our mental faculty, through the use of reason. It starts with observations which leads to the formation of principles, concepts, and knowledge. The scientific method is an example of this process.

What is the relationship of reason to emotion? Most people misunderstand this crucial connection. They believe that both are on the same hierarchical level which is implied by their framing of the issue as reason versus emotion. Thus, they might categorize individuals as mainly rational or mainly emotional, cerebral or spontaneous. Wrong! The relationship of reason to emotion is similar to the relationship of cause to effect. They are not on the same hierarchical level. Reason is more fundamental, and emotions result from the conclusions of your reason. Emotions are an inseparable and valuable part of being human, but the process of how they are created is misunderstood. Note that the ultimate goal of every person should be to achieve their individual happiness–which is experienced as an emotion. Reason and emotion are two aspects of the same human being.

Emotions are a response to your values–which hopefully are a result of good thinking, of reflection and rational thought. They are a response to your fundamental view of the world, of the values you hold in people and things. If your values are irrational, then the emotions you experience will be irrational. They will be unknowable demons tormenting your life. When your values are rational, your resultant emotions will be logical, predictable, and understandable. Philosopher Ayn Rand explained that emotions are like the eloquent term used by computer programmers: gigo, which means garbage in, garbage out. Again, reason and emotion are two aspects of the same human being. Reason should function as a guide to life, a guide to your actions. Emotions should enrich your life and make it more worth living.

Let me paraphrase a brief explanation by Dr. Leonard Peikoff that I heard in a lecture of his on cassette tape (yes, it was that long ago). A college professor enters his classroom, sets his briefcase on his desk, and removes a handful of blue books. He then proceeds to pass out the blue books. There is a hush of tense nervousness in the class. Finally, a hand is raised and an anxious students says, “but you didn’t say there was a test today!” With that the professor collects the blue books and puts them back into his briefcase. He then asks, who can tell me about the emotions you were experiencing while I was passing out the blue books?

To summarize, the blue books mean a test. A test means failure. Failure in this class means you do not get your college degree, or you do not get it with the high GPA that you were expecting. Without that college degree you will not get that nice job with the comfortable paycheck. That means that you will not be able to afford the nice house, the two car family, and the achievement of the American dream. The blue books are a threat to your future happiness! Invariably, there are 2 or 3 students auditing the class. They do not get a grade so they cannot fail the class. The test is not a threat to them, and they remain calm and relaxed throughout the process. Do you get it? Emotions are a response to your values. Reason is more fundamental than emotions because it, hopefully, determines your values through reflection and thought. Most people simply absorb their values from the people around them: parents, relatives, friends, peers, teachers, sports heroes, or musicians. They have never reflected on their values and integrated them into complete and harmonious whole.

Reason provides a method by which you can discover and correct your errors. Emotions do not. Emotionalists are like frightened natives at the mercy of the proclamations of the witch doctor of their primitive tribe. Our educational system has not been teaching the young how to think, how to properly use their mental faculty. Thus, by default, it has been turning most of them into emotionalists which is what happens when you do not know how to use your mind. The hidden goal of education has been indoctrination, not education. We have many good and well meaning teachers, but the system they work in is corrupt.

Rather than promoting rational and independent thinking so that students would be capable of choosing their own values, our educational system has been advocating the values and politics of collectivism. This social system cannot be rationally defended and thus requires that its advocates be emotionalists. I’ve listened to three debates on cassette tape on the subject of: Capitalism verses Socialism, which is the moral system? The socialists were destroyed by the Objectivists! They didn’t even know how to philosophically defend collectivism. They only spoke in timeworn clichés and broad but shallow generalizations. I can excuse them for not mentally grasping the consequences of their favored system. Few do. But, I do fault them for advocating a system which would eventually enslave me, whether they realized it or not.

There are three variations of collectivism: socialism, fascism, and communism. The basics of all of them can be understood by using the analogy of the honey bee hive. Citizens in a collective are like worker bees. They do not have any rights. Instead, they have a moral duty to sacrifice their lives for their bee hive. Worker bees are slaves whose lives are owned and controlled by their hive, by their all-powerful central government. This is why a vote for Hillary was ultimately a vote for slavery. She is an advocate of the collectivist bee hive over which she intended to rule with an iron fist. But, humans are not insects. Collectivism is not an appropriate social and political organization for us because we possess a rational faculty. We are capable of thinking.

Individualism is the philosophical opposite of collectivism. The real scale in politics is individualism versus collectivism, not liberal versus conservative nor left versus right. Almost all politicians in Washington DC are collectivists. They favor a big all-powerful central government to rule our nation, our collectivist bee hive. A vote for Trump was a vote against the political establishment. He does not stand on principles so a vote for him was a roll of the dice. But, better that than a guarantee of being a slave under Hillary. We can only hope that Trump will truly “drain the swamp” of collectivists, and promote individual rights and freedom. Freedom is what will make America great again!

The United States was founded as an individualist nation recognizing that all of its citizens possess inalienable rights. This was a total break from the European collectivist tradition. Most American youth today have been indoctrinated by our educational system and have no idea that their country was a historic revolution in the cause of individual rights and freedom. This is why Ayn Rand asserts that in its original founding principles the United States was the only moral nation in history. When individual rights are honored and respected, the result is freedom.

Individualism in politics is moral; collectivism is not. Individualism is implemented with a limited and minimal government that is ultimately answerable to the people. ”We the people” are supposed to be our government’s final authority. Good principles are eternal; they are not subject to change. The Constitution of the United States was intended to be eternal. It was intended to implement the concept of individual rights for all time. Instead, there is a large faction today that wants to interpret the Constitution as a “living document”. This would mean that it is not eternal; it would be subject to change. The collectivists want to reinterpret the Constitution in a way that would allow all of us to be enslaved as worker bees. There would be no freedom. Would you be happy as a slave? Would making you a slave be moral?

Do the liberals/progressives/Leftists understand any of this? No! They most certainly do not! They are neither rational nor are they deep thinkers. They believe that their vision of collectivism will be a utopia where everyone will be equal, free from want, and happy. They are dead wrong. Life by its nature requires us to work to survive and achieve our happiness. The only path to self-esteem is through hard work. The achievement itself is rewarding. Successful striving results in joy. There is no such thing as being completely taken care of by someone else, of delegating the responsibility for your own survival, and being fat, dumb, and happy. Any government that allegedly attempts to realize this false goal will fail–as examples of collectivism in the 20th century demonstrate. The progressive Left is delusional about reality.

I repeat, emotionalism does not give anyone the ability to discover and correct their errors. Only reason does that. Regardless, the Leftists are emotionally committed to their daydream just as Islamic jihadists are blindly committed to their Allah. Anyone opposed to their subjective “reality” is automatically considered to be mean-spirited and evil. That is why, for them, the ends justify the means. They will simply attempt to steamroll those who they believe are wrong. The self-absorbed hypocrites do not realize that they themselves are hypocrites. They do not want to be dictated to, but it is okay for them to dictate to you. Self-centered? Devoid of civilized manners? They will lie, cheat, steal, and throw temper tantrums to get their way. After all, paradise is worth it, isn’t it? But, pipe dreams are not reality. Only reality is real.

Observe that liberal/progressive/Leftist causes today are based on emotionalism with no real evidence given for their validity–thus indicating that they are irrational. They have no logical process nor systematic method by which they arrive at their conclusions. Infantile temper tantrums against Trump by the Left and by Leftist celebrities, threats of violence in virulent anti-Trump protests, the immature demand for “safe spaces” on college campuses, the racist Black Lives Matter movement which includes emotional but unsubstantiated assertions of white privilege, unsupported accusations of hate, racism, misogynism, homophobia, xenophobia, and Islamophobia, fanatical anti-GMO activists, and zealous anti-fracking protesters. You must resolve to accept only objective reasons as explanations, not subjective emotions. The article and video linked below presents a good argument in favor of fracking and explains its benefits to modern civilized society. Please remain loyal to your rational standards, insist on explanations, and ask yourself whether or not they makes sense. Then, use the same standards to analyze all arguments.

Patrick Moore, The Sensible Environmentalist: The Truth about Fracking, Natural Gas and Vinyl

Carbon dioxide is natural and is essential to life on earth. It is part of the plant-animal cycle. It is not a pollutant. Those who assert that it is have no rational argument to back up their emotionalist opinions. Simply ask, why? Do not accept their lies, misrepresentations, and illogic. Disingenuous? Screaming and even sincerity does not validate an opinion. Only good reasons do. It has to make sense! Do not be satisfied with their answers until you get rational explanations that are backed up by scientific evidence and research.

The Truth About Carbon Dioxide (C02) with Patrick Moore, The Sensible Environmentalist

There are many articles and videos you can easily find for yourself showing that global warming is certainly not settled science. Is science ever settled? And, its advocates never seem to want to make the distinction between “man made” versus natural global warming. What are they trying to hide? The weather has been changing for billions of years since the beginning of the earth. Their arguments are based on scare tactics and lies. One volcanic eruption can wipe out years of human efforts to minimize their “carbon footprint”. And, by the way, what is China doing about minimizing their carbon footprint? You must insist on reason and truth. Why are we wasting trillions of dollars in response to a “theory”, especially an emotionalist one that is not backed up by the scientific evidence?

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